Jerome wrote:Dowgrading does it. Now, questions are how long will we be keeping the old libcairo, and will this break something else before the EXA bug is solved and libcairo is upgradable ?

When you're running the testing or unstable distributions - this happens. Put libcairo2 on hold and when xserver 1.12 arrives in testing you can try upgrading again... no one can tell you how long it will take - it depends on the state of the xorg packages in unstable.

I use apt-get. Thanks, better and easier than pinning. I haven't pinning packages but only a couple times, and that was pinning to Testing or Stable in Sid. Can you pin package versions? Holding looks more appropriate in this case.